Documentary About Spartacus' Andy Whitfield Needs Your Help

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By Max Nicholson

Many of us still mourn the loss of Spartacus star Andy Whitfield, who passed away back in September. But during his last several months of battling cancer, the actor also had a camera crew with him up until his final days.

The result is Be Here Now, a feature-length documentary following the late actor and his struggle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. "Our last experience with it was very difficult and lonely, we felt we had a lot of questions,” Whitfield’s manager Sam Maydew recalled the actor telling him back then, in a new story at Deadline. “We want to bring awareness to cancer treatment so others who go through it feel they’re not alone.” It was Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Lilibet Foster who came aboard to helm the project and spent the next year with Whitfield and his family.

As of right now the film is near completion, but Deadline reports that the team needs about $200,000 to complete it. They are now reaching out to the fans for help. "The reason is that so many of Andy’s followers live on the Internet, and this is a way to give them an opportunity to be part of the making of the film,” Foster said.